Backstage ◇ Charlie Gillespie

Introduction

In the dark times

Will there also be singing?

Yes, there will also be singing

About the dark times

Bertolt Brecht

He remembers the first time music made his heart melt into a million pieces and broke off to chords that he wanted to play. The record player was playing the Beatles "Rubber Soul" obviously such a classic and he reminiscences about how he turned it up and played the air guitar. He did a full concert set to his stuff animals and he believed they all hated it.

After that day he declared to myself every morning he wanted to be a rock star. Tour. Meet chicks (he didn't talk about the chicks until he was fifteen) But nonetheless he had the dream about making it big.

That dream changed all of the suddenly not to long ago. A dream turned into reality and which reality turned to a nightmare.

A nightmare that was such an innocent act behind a curtain.

Behind a stage, where all of the girls and him would go to watch a band. Shuffling around and dancing to live music. Most of them were high on life and some of them not so much. But he himself was taking it all in....

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